3 papers
cs.AI2025
Plasticity as the Mirror of Empowerment
David Abel, Michael Bowling, André Barreto +13
Agents are minimally entities that are influenced by their past observations and act to influence future observations. This latter capacity is captured by empowerment, which has se…
cs.LG2025
Capacity-Constrained Continual Learning
Zheng Wen, Doina Precup, Benjamin Van Roy +1
Any agents we can possibly build are subject to capacity constraints, as memory and compute resources are inherently finite. However, comparatively little attention has been dedica…
cs.AI2025
Agency Is Frame-Dependent
David Abel, André Barreto, Michael Bowling +13
Agency is a system's capacity to steer outcomes toward a goal, and is a central topic of study across biology, philosophy, cognitive science, and artificial intelligence. Determini…